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Pelias ' son, Acastus, drove Jason and Medea into exile for the murder, and the couple settled in Corinth.
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Pelias and son
Alcimede I ( wife of Aeson ) already had an infant son named Jason whom she saved from being killed by Pelias, by having women cluster around the newborn and cry as if he were still-born.
Alcimede sent her son to the centaur Chiron for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him — she claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along.
Two versions of Peleus ' fate account for this ; in Euripides ' Troades, Acastus, son of Pelias, has exiled him from Phthia ; and subsequently he dies in exile ; in another, he is reunited with Thetis and made immortal.
He received Neleus, who had been driven out of Iolcus by Pelias, and assigned to him a tract of land in the maritime part of Messenia, where the main city was Pylos ; in the same fashion he welcomed the exiled Lycus, son of Pandion, who revealed the rites of Demeter to Aphareus and his family.
* Promachus, son of Aeson and Alcimede or Amphinome, killed by Pelias along with his father while his older brother, Jason, searched for the Golden Fleece.
Twenty years later (" but an instant of time on Olympus "), Jason ( Todd Armstrong ), Aristo's son grown to manhood, saves Pelias from drowning during a chance encounter, but loses a sandal into the depths of the river such that Pelias recognises him.
Also not mentioned, ancient mythology suggests King Aristo and Pelias were half brothers ; each sharing a common mother Tyro, where the former is a son of Cretheus and the latter, a son of the god Poseidon.
Pelias and Acastus
Bias and Iphianassa had a daughter Anaxibia who married Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters.
Pelias and drove
Apollo harnessed the yoke with the animals and Admetus drove the chariot to Pelias, and thus married Alcestis.
Pelias and Jason
Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of the sea god and his alleged father, Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros (" wintry Anauros "), while helping an old woman to cross ( the Goddess Hera in disguise ).
Jason, knowing that he was the rightful king, told Pelias that and Pelias said, " To take my throne, which you shall, you must go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece.
While Jason searched for the Golden Fleece, Hera, who was still angry at Pelias, conspired to make Jason fall in love with Medea, who Hera hoped would kill Pelias.
Pelias sends forth Jason, in an 1879 illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church.
Jason grew in the care of Chiron the centaur, on Mount Pelium, to be educated while Pelias, paranoid that he would be overthrown, was warned by an oracle to beware a man wearing one sandal .< ref >" Jason " The Oxford Companion to World mythology.
It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest by order of King Pelias for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly.
Sidero hid in a temple to Hera but Pelias killed her anyway, causing Hera's undying hatred of Pelias – and her glorious patronage of Jason and the Argonauts in their long quest for the Golden Fleece.
Pelias and Medea
Medea, using her sorcery, claimed to Pelias ' daughters that she could make their father younger by chopping him up into pieces and boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water and magical herbs.
It should be noted that Thomas Bulfinch has an antecedent to the interaction of Medea and the daughters of Pelias.
After the return of the Argonauts, Acastus's sisters were seduced by Medea to cut their father Pelias in pieces and boil them.
* A daughter of Pelias, who, together with her sisters, killed their father, as Medea tricked them into believing this was needed to rejuvenate him.
* Pelias was killed by his daughters, who were deceived by Medea into thinking he could be resurrected.
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